I just bought a used (pristine) Studiolive 16.4.2 AI board with the hopes of using the Dante in it. After reading a lot of bad reports, would I be better off scratching the expansion card and going with something else to bring in the audio from the other venue? What I mean in this case is having some type of Dante device in my studio that grabs the audio and then just use XLR cables to bring the audio to my mixer?

I'm going to be running audio from one venue to another around 1 mile away. It is a gig network with fiber between. It is pretty basic. I will be taking announcer (play by play) and sending the audio to the studio from the gym. I will also have a crowd mic for added sound to not have a sterile background when play by play is not on. That's pretty much it at this point for sound coming to the mixer.

To the mixer yes, one way, but I will also be doing communication via Clear-Com in studio to Eartec in the other venue. Communication between buildings is going to be happening. That is why some of the other pieces.

scottholt3 wroteTo the mixer yes, one way, but I will also be doing communication via Clear-Com in studio to Eartec in the other venue. Communication between buildings is going to be happening. That is why some of the other pieces.

Here is what I was told why the AVIO won't work for my Clear-Com intercom system.

If you plug that into the back of your intercom power supply, you will damage it because clearcom is not a balanced audio signal and has dc power on one of the contact. You can't plug a device expecting line level audio into clearcom party-line. That's why that studio-tech box exists. That's also why that clearcom tw-47 interface exists, to convert intercom to a line in and line out audio. If you want to use those audinate pieces, then I'm pretty sure you need the tw-47 at both ends, like my original drawing. That's what makes the studio-tech piece so apealing. It does the conversion from party-line bi-directional audio to Dante and then converts it back at the other end.